October 10, 2009 - 5:18am — Kanaf
This is what has happened to the Forest. There's no love anymore.
You know what I see? I see the newer members posting "Does anyone wanna be my mate?" blogs again. And the people who don't do that participate in the rut, making stags have loveless sex with does they barely know so they can have babies for no reason other than to reproduce.
Since when was this the real world?
The Forest was created to be an artistic and imaginative outlet. It was meant for you to create a unique character and see what happens. It was meant to be a new experience. What's so new about real deer? EVERYONE knows what a real deer is.
When I joined.
Not when you joined. When I joined.
There was a way to have children. It was called making friends, finding love, and having a family.
Now what is it? Find a stag to present for you and see if you like it, then let him have his way with you. ~*THAT'S SO MAGICAL*~
This makes me want to puke.
Pega's wonderful philosophy has been buried.
This is no longer the place of magic I've known. And I know a LOT of oldies tend to say this. But I'm not talking about the cliques or the artwork or the violence. I'm talking about something that was actually an important to the Forest that is now lost. New players don't see the old way of things anymore.
What they will see is "Oh, they do things the way real deer do things, so I'll be a real deer too."
THIS IS NOT WHAT IT WAS MEANT TO BE.
I'm going around in circles. I'm expressing the fact that this rut has changed everything. It's turned from love into something I hate.
Where did the love go?
Where are the happy families?
Sometimes I think me and a precious few others are the only ones left with families who actually had children out of love. And I think I might be right.
I've basically lost hope in love here. It'll never come back now. There will never be love. Only sex.
Thank you, Her,
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oh dear, Raku, you said
You know what, I'm going to
Everyone's going to assume that just because I'm participating in a player-run event, that I don't know what 'true love' is. You'll all make completely false generalizations about me, and other rut players, and snigger behind your backs or ignore me in game, or whatever.
If you want to do that, be my guest. Arguing my opinion is going to do absolutely nothing in my favour. So, pretend that you all win, that the Rut is evil, and everyone else is sick and depraved, or worse, a 'newb'.
At least /I/ will still know how to relax.
Eh... okay? O_o... I'LL BE
I'LL BE THE HERO.
... AND EAT IT.
Ookani, now you're making
No one said participants of the rut don't know what "true love" is. All that was said is that there isn't really any "true love" in the rut itself. (There may be a few who are choosing "mates" due to crushes, of course, but a lot of does are choosing stags they don't know well.)
Contrary to what you think, I don't hate or even dislike anyone who is participating in the rut.
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The Dragonfly Deer's Biography
Pega's Forest Philosophy: "Look for Friends. Let Love find you."
"If you don't like something, tolerate it."
*Twitch* Would people please
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"The cruelest prison is one we build for ourselves out of fear and regret."
A lot of people are saying
I may be a new member and not really know much about the old forest, but I think it's still a lovely place. I havn't seen people attacking others randomly (apart from my deer, he's just having problems at the moment and only does this when he feels threatened) nor has my stag been flirted with. Maybe it's just the time of day I play but I don't see what the big fuss is about.
Quote:What happened to our
A little thing called 'change' came along.
I'm setting the Rut ordeal aside for this part of my point, and I hope you will too if you reply to my post.
You cannot stop change. From what I've gathered after looking through the very old blogs, the forest started changing when more people started joining. I know that change is hard, and I'm sure I'll see my words I've just written slapped in my face sometime in the future, but it doesn't do any good to sit around and whine about how things were before present day. Things are the way they are now because we, as a community, have set those changes in motion.
Now, bringing the rut back, I have this to say;
VCG (I'm sure with the help of some friends) brought the rut idea into the forest. I don't know if this is what she thought, but what I think of when I think about the rut is this.
It sounds like fun. My doe probably won't get pregnant. I'm still a newbie and no-one knows me, but maybe I'll get to know who the person behind the many deer I play with everyday.
So I joined the community.
Good god people.
What a welcoming parade for those who just joined in.
With writing such things about sex and mates.
The way I see it, the rut was only half about the next generation.
The other half is about meeting new people and gaining new friends.
I don't know if anyone else did this for the same reason, but I only joined the rut to meet new people. To get new friends. For my deer to know who she is playing with every day she is in the forest.
I know that the rut brings a nasty thought to mind when you think about it, but if you /really/ think about it, they are honest to god pixels.
Yeah, sure. My own doe means a lot more to me than you think. She's my image of what I would like to see more of in the world. More people getting along. Less people fighting over something as stupid as a colored block on a computer screen that happens to be a deer.
I'm ranting now.
I don't even care if I got my point through.
I said what I wanted to say.
Go ahead, sue me.
I'm still in the rut. My doe Talor will still continue to enjoy herself in the forest.
I'm tired of listening to our community complain that 'sex has taken over and all the love is gone'. And I've only been here for TWO DAYS.
Have you seen what's going on in the middle east?
Iraq and Afghanistan?
Yeah. The love is gone there too.
My brother is being stationed there.
IN THE MIDDLE OF HELL.
Just found out a few hours ago, so damn right I'm in a bad mood.
Sorry if I offended anyone while I wrote this. Just everyone, please, stop fighting.
Go in the forest and nuzzle a stranger, just to tell them you care.
~Kimberly
[ J A G E R ]
Quote:Go in the forest and
Oh, golly, I do that almost every day.. <33 [/random]
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[ J A G E R ]
Aera, You said everything I
Thank you, ever so much, for being just plain awesome and levelheaded. I know that, personally, through the rut I've met wonderful players, made some new friends, and been more active because I had something to log in for everyday. About day four, I stopped logging in with 'I hope I win more skirmishes today' in my head, and more 'I hope I meet Seed/Dag/Gwen/Ashaki/Dali/Virgil etc etc'
As an Animal Biology undergrad, I had my own motivations for participating in the rut- simulating realistic behaviour is a nice bit of role play for me. That, and it gave me inspiration on my first essay of the semester which is about red deer behaviour. Not that I'm using TEF as a strong reference, but it gave me ideas for what to write about, where to research, and the implications of such, blah blah blah.
It's been a great experiance, and I really hope to play with /everyone/ I've met during the rut, doe and stag alike, no hard feelings. (If Zelig, as a character, eventually ends up with either of those, then more the better) but it's not essential for my enjoyment of the game.
Also, random nuzzles rock.
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~Zelig~